Having cultivated myself into an immortal, all I want to do is raise female disciples.

He reached out and tapped the gambling table; the crisp sound immediately reached the skinny boss's ears.

Yun Ping's lips curled up, a smile playing on his lips, his tone unusually flippant, "Hey boss, stop standing there, the results are already out, or are you planning to renege on your debt?"

Upon hearing the words "reneging on the debt," the skinny boss's body trembled slightly.

His unwilling gaze swept across the gambling table, then focused again on the six dice.

Six sixes... really made him...

Having missed this chance to kill him, he may never be able to fulfill his lifelong wish of personally killing this person.

Damn it!

The skinny boss, his face contorted with rage and fury, slammed his fist on the gambling table.

Along with the muffled sound came four hundred dazzling golden round chips that appeared from mid-air.

They were piled up in front of the clouds, forming two small, gleaming golden mountains, attracting many envious and greedy glances from those around them.

Of course, they couldn't rob it, because the Fat and Thin Casinos didn't allow gamblers to take other people's property.

—At least not inside this casino.

"Thanks, boss, these chips are enough."

Yun Ping casually waved his hand, storing all four hundred chips into his storage ring. He then gave forty chips to Duan Xingchen beside him.

The girl was stunned for a moment. She took the forty chips from Yunping's hand in a daze, opened her mouth as if she wanted to say something to Yunping.

But before she could speak, Yunping beat her to it—

"No need to thank me right away. Go thank your sect leader."

"I……"

Yun Ping waved his hand, indicating that Duan Xingchen didn't need to worry too much, and then glanced back at the pale-faced, thin boss at the gambling table.

As the owner of the casino, he lost his bet with Yunping, which was both a humiliation and a source of regret for him.

He gritted his teeth, staring fiercely at Yunping, his voice sounding as if it were being squeezed out from between his teeth.

"Anyone else want to bet?"

……

No one answered.

The crowd exchanged bewildered glances. Finally, the human female cultivator stood up from her seat and shook her head.

"I'm not gambling anymore, I'll come back another day."

These words immediately resonated with the others.

The first demon youth to catch up stared at Yun Ping with a gaze that seemed to be fixed on a ghost or god, his voice trembling slightly, "I'm not gambling anymore. If I keep gambling... I reckon I'll even lose my underwear..."

"I'm not gambling anymore."

"Me too."

Scared.

Everyone's scared.

He accurately guessed the numbers the first two times, and in the last gamble where he risked his life, he produced the most difficult jackpot in the game, turning the impossible into reality.

bet?

What can we bet with him?

With a terrifying entity in front of you that seems to be able to manipulate points at will, who would dare to gamble?

"I'm not gambling anymore, my luck is bad today."

The demon girl was the last gambler to stand up, but her tone didn't show much regret; instead, it was more surprised.

Those eyes, which seemed to want to see Yunping completely, kept roaming over the old rogue.

Compared to the fear of others, she was more curious.

I'm curious about the identity of this guy who's starting to look more and more like that man.

As everyone at the gambling table left, Yun Ping spread his hands, shrugged, and then said to the skinny boss:

"It seems we can't continue gambling. We've got enough chips now, so it's time for you to answer our questions."

Yes, Old Yun still hasn't forgotten their real purpose for coming to this Fat and Skinny Casino—to gamble (no, that's not right).

In order to inquire about the whereabouts of Yang Que Huo Yu.

Ye Yuchan's injury... cannot be delayed any longer.

The skinny boss glared at Yun Ping with considerable displeasure, then let out a long sigh and turned around. "Fine, it's fate. Come with me."

"And what about me...?" Duan Xingchen asked at this moment.

"Go find my avatars; they will answer any questions you have, as long as you give them the resources."

The skinny boss pointed to two gaunt figures not far away, who looked exactly like him but with slightly blank and unnatural expressions.

An external avatar...

Duan Xingchen nodded in astonishment. Her gaze had only shifted from Yun Ping for a few seconds when she looked back and found that Yun Ping and the others, including the skinny boss, had already disappeared.

"Eh?"

She looked around in bewilderment, but couldn't find Yun Ping and the others. She figured they must have gone to some strange place with the boss...

That person is so capable, there shouldn't be any problems, right...?

Thinking of this, Duan Xingchen took a deep breath and, with a rather uneasy heart, walked towards the avatar of the skinny boss not far away.

The truth behind that terrifying dream that she couldn't understand, that caused her so much pain, and that kept recurring in her dreams...

The answer will be revealed today.

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the other side.

The group of Yunping and his companions who disappeared from the casino were taken to a rather peculiar place by the skinny boss.

It's peculiar because all they can see here is pure darkness; they can't even see the most basic light.

Ye Yuchan and Zhang Ruoxue could only barely maintain their eyesight by relying on the spiritual energy within their bodies.

When they looked around curiously, they found that there seemed to be no walls in any direction, but rather a vortex that seemed like an abyss that would suck people in.

There was nothing beneath my feet, and in that instant of seeing that emptiness—

"Waaaaah..."

Yu Chan instinctively cried out, grabbing the waist of a white-shirted young man beside her with both hands in a haphazard manner, her upper body almost pressed against Yun Ping.

Zhang Ruoxue's body also trembled, but her reaction was relatively calm; she simply grabbed the two wheels of the wheelchair under Ye Yuchan's buttocks...

Feeling the girl's soft, delicate body up close, Yun Ping slowly reached around Ye Yuchan's back and gently embraced her, his tone calm.

"Don't be afraid, this thing is like a movie special effect. It looks scary, but it has no real existence."

"I was so scared, I thought I was going to fall..."

Ye Yuchan clung tightly to Yunping's waist, trying to pull him closer to her.

"You haven't fallen yet, calm down..."

Yunping slowly pried Ye Yuchan off him like an octopus. The latter hesitated for a moment, but finally sat back in her wheelchair.

Yes, she has a slight fear of heights.

Especially this bottomless, unknown height where the bottom cannot be seen at a glance.

It was at this moment that the skinny boss spoke up.

"The question you want to ask is about the Yangque Fire Domain, right?"

He slowly sat down—though it was more of a gesture than a sitting, because there was no chair-like object in his field of vision; it was as if he were sitting on nothingness.

Zhang Ruoxue tried to sit down like him, but there was nothing under her butt, and she almost fell flat on her face.

To ease the awkwardness, she simply sat down cross-legged.

Yunping found it somewhat amusing and shifted his gaze away from Zhang Ruoxue, turning instead to look seriously at the skinny boss.

"As you can see, only Yang Que Ying Huo can heal my sister Yu Chan's injury."

"As far as I know, the Yangque Fire Domain disappeared 150 years ago. I'm here to ask about the current location of the Yangque Fire Domain."

"The Yangque Fire Domain, huh..."

The skinny boss took a deep breath and then slowly exhaled a cloud of dark, murky air.

He narrowed his eyes, staring intently at Yun Ping. "You should have tried using your divine sense to locate the Yangque Fire Domain, right? What was the result?"

“If I could find it, I wouldn’t be here.”

Indeed, Yunping had long ago tried to use his divine soul to explore the Kuntian Domain in order to find the Yangque Fire Domain, but he failed.

It seems that the Yangque Fire Domain... has truly and completely disappeared.

The skinny boss nodded knowingly, "Indeed, because the Yangque Fire Domain is no longer in the Kuntian Domain."

Ye Yuchan frowned. "What do you mean by that? The Yangque Fire Domain has moved to another celestial domain?"

If that's the case, then their previous use of the portal girl to get to this godforsaken place... would have been completely pointless!

However, the skinny boss quickly refuted Ye Yuchan's guess—

"No, Yangque Fire Domain... or rather, Yangque Yinghuo and its people went to a very special place."

"A very special place?" Yunping seemed to have thought of something, his expression shifting slightly. "You mean..."

The skinny boss knew that Yunping had already guessed, so he nodded and reluctantly uttered the name of the place.

It's brief, yet astonishing.

"The Netherworld".